Individuals

An increasingly hostile campus environment doesn’t just magically happen. Behind the encampment protests and the sometimes-violent university occupations are people driving the conversation. Activist Tracker maintains a growing database of individual case files documenting the faculty members, students, activists, and public figures shaping campus discourse around radical ideology, hostile activism, terror, and antisemitism.

Each entry lays out what these individuals are actually doing on campus: the petitions they sign, the demonstrations they support, the statements they make, the organizations they lead, and the social media posts they proudly put out into the world.

Sereen Abu-Saab protest new york hamas
Sereen Abu-Saab
📍 New York City
🗺️ New York
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Rachel Himes Columbia university faculty professor New York protests arrest encampment Palestin eIsrael
Rachel Himes
📍 New York City
🗺️ New York
🏫 Columbia University (Columbia)
Rachel Himes is a children’s writer and Columbia University PhD student who was arrested in January 2024 during a coordinated anti-Israel disruption in New York City that shut down major transportation infrastructure while Israel was at war with Hamas.
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Muzzamil Siddiqi
📍 Los Angeles
🗺️ California
🏫 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Muzammil Siddiqi is a long standing Islamic leader whose record reflects sustained ideological activism centered on religious proselytization and alignment with Islamist networks. Through institutional leadership, campus appearances, and programming that supports student activism, Siddiqi has repeatedly positioned religious authority as a political force within American academic and civic spaces.
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Premilla Nadasen
📍 New York City
🗺️ New York
🏫 Columbia University (Columbia)
Support for the Pro-Hamas Encampment at Columbia University, Justification of Hamas Terrorism, Dismissal of Antisemitism
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Miriam Posner
📍 Los Angeles
🗺️ California
🏫 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Miriam Posner is an academic figure whose public record shows sustained alignment with pro Palestinian activism and the normalization of extreme rhetoric. Through social media amplification, praise for illegal encampments, and repeated genocide accusations, she has helped legitimize narratives that fuel campus polarization and minimize antisemitic harm.
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Aamir Mufti
📍 Los Angeles
🗺️ California
🏫 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Aamir Mufti is an academic whose public record shows a long standing pattern of delegitimizing and demonizing the State of Israel. Across more than a decade, he has repeatedly endorsed boycotts, amplified extremist rhetoric, and framed Israel as a fascist colonial project, while omitting or excusing the role of Hamas and other violent actors.
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Neferti Tadiar Columbia university professor faculty encampment
Neferti Tadiar
📍 New York City
🗺️ New York
🏫 Columbia University (Columbia)
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Lakshmi Padmanabhan
📍 Evanston/Chicago
🗺️ Illinois
🏫 Northwestern University (Northwestern)
Lakshmi Padmanabhan is a Northwestern affiliated writer and academic voice whose public work and organizing activity consistently align with pro Palestinian activism. Through petitions, media projects, and movement oriented conversations, she has helped amplify apartheid and occupation narratives while embedding activist framing into academic and cultural spaces.
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Karen Olivo (KO)
📍 Evanston/Chicago
🗺️ Illinois
🏫 Northwestern University (Northwestern)
Karen Olivo is a Northwestern University theatre professor and program director who has used her institutional role and public platforms to openly promote pro Palestinian activism. Through social media signaling, letter campaigns, and alignment with encampment organizers, she has amplified genocide accusations and activist demands while lending faculty legitimacy to a movement that has intensified campus polarization.
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Daisy Hernandez
📍 Evanston/Chicago
🗺️ Illinois
🏫 Northwestern University (Northwestern)
Daisy Hernandez is a Northwestern University professor whose public activity and teaching posture increasingly reflect political advocacy aligned with pro Palestinian activism. Through protest participation, faculty letters, and the promotion of Gaza centered narratives, she has used her academic platform to legitimize highly charged rhetoric while minimizing concerns about antisemitism and campus polarization.
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Vanessa Wills
📍 Washington, DC
🗺️ Washington
🏫 George Washington University (GW)
Vanessa Wills is a George Washington University philosophy professor whose academic role has merged with sustained political advocacy around the Israel Gaza conflict. Through editorial leadership, public statements, and organizing activity, she has repeatedly advanced genocide framing and mobilized activism that mirrors the rhetoric driving campus polarization and hostility toward Jewish communities.
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Quito J. Swan
📍 Washington, DC
🗺️ Washington
🏫 George Washington University (GW)
Quito J. Swan is a senior faculty leader at George Washington University whose scholarship openly positions itself as political activism. His work and public statements consistently frame global events through anticolonial and apartheid narratives, including repeated alignment with pro Palestinian activism that mirrors the rhetoric driving campus polarization nationwide.
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